16 And 18, Rose Street

16 and 18 Rose Street is a Wealden hall house that has been converted into a shop and offices with a flat above. It dates from the early 15th century but was refaced and extended in the late 16th century, with further alterations and extensions made in the late 20th century. The building features a timber frame with painted stucco and part painted brick, topped by an old tile gabled roof. It has an L-plan layout consisting of five framed bays and a three-bay extension.

Inside, the former hall and cross passage are located in the second bay from the southwest end, and there is a small former stair turret at the rear behind the second bay from the northeast. The building has a continuous jetty on the southeast side, supported by curved brackets on each bay, and there is a passageway leading to the rear yard under the northeast bay. It is two storeys high, with a late 16th-century chimney inserted in the former cross passage, centrally placed on the ridge, and a similar chimney at the rear next to the 16th-century extension.

The road front features a jettied design with five 19th-century windows in moulded architrave frames on the first floor. Above the early 20th-century shop fronts, there is a small continuous moulded fascia with two glazed entrance doors. To the right, there is a storey-height passageway leading to the yard, which has a pair of large planked doors. Inside, some of the frame is exposed, with heavy beams that are chamfered and stopped, and wide joists on the ground floor in the second bay from the right. The first-floor living room contains two recessed posts from a former recessed bay. The roof features queen struts with large curved struts and windbraces, and clasped purlins, with principal rafters that reduce at collar level. The timbers over the former hall are smoke blackened.